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Mood: Viktor Madarasz, Hungary, 1830-1917 #art #artistsoninstagram

Did you catch part 2 of our special series: "The Plastic Plague"? Sharon Lavigne, 2021 Goldman Prize Awardee from RISE St. James and Diane Wilson from San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper have stepped up the fight for environmental justice against the plastic production boom on the Gulf Coast of the United States.

Once extracted, how does oil and gas become the products, part of the plastic production boom that is poisoning environmental justice communities? Then we buy these products, the social and environmental justice issues are covered up by cool marketing campaigns.

TUNE IN TODAY at 3PM on @kpfk Listen later here: EcoJustice Radio link in bio
CLICK HERE to listen to the entire series: http://ow.ly/Fsxa50FQJf3

On this encore airing of this episode (part 2 of 7), we break down how fossil fuels become plastic and follow the train of economic interests and irresponsibility. We hear from front-line activists dealing with plastic manufacturing and the impact to their communities’ quality of life.

Guests: Diane Wilson, Executive Director of San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper;
Sharon Lavigne, Founding Director of RISE ST. JAMES and recently named North American Winner of the 2021 @goldmanprize Winner; and
Jim Vallette, President of Material Research L3C.

Host/Producer: Jessica Aldridge @AdventuresInWaste
Exec. Producer: Jack Eidt @wilderutopia
Engineer: Blake Lampkin @BlakeQuakeBeats
EcoJustice Radio Created by: @socal.350 @ecojusticeradio_
Series Producer: Georgia Tunioli
Executive Producer: Jack Eidt WilderUtopia
Special Thanks: @storyofstuff

#risestjames #stopformosa #breakfreefromplastic #PlasticPlague #canceralley #permianbasin #podcast #keepitintheground #zerowasteally

Join us: 'Delirium Corridor; Reading this Sunday, July 18 at 2 pm at Delirium Corridor Road Show Book Tour at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, CA @henrymillerlib
I will be reading along with Max Talley Jesse Krenzel
With work by Stephen Vessels Silver Webb @silver_webb An-drea Ta-wil Trey Dowell John Reed and many others!
Published by Borda Books – link in bio for details

Victor Brauner, born in Romania, left for Paris with the rise of fascism, and embraced surrealism.

In 1937 he painted ‘The City I Dream’ in which he takes us into a Giorgio De Chirico-inspired metaphysical cityscape, complete with distorted perspective. #surrealism #metaphysicalart #giorgiodichirico #victorbrauner #art #artofinstagram

From @ecojusticeradio_
An agreement announced in November 2020 paves the way for demolition of four hydroelectric dams on the Lower Klamath River, the largest dam demolition in U.S. history. This would reopen hundreds of miles of waterway along the Oregon-California border to Chinook Salmon restoration, critical and sacred to tribes but have dwindled to almost nothing in recent years.

In this episode, Regina Chichizola, Co-Director of Save California’s Salmon and Sammy Gensaw, a Yurok fisherman, youth activist & Director of Ancestral Guard, share the heartbreaking and inspiring 20-year journey to undam the Klamath River, which has suffered from low water flows, toxic algal blooms, and fish populations that now face extinction, parasites and disease.

The Yurok and Karuk tribes and others, along with fishing groups and environmentalists had hoped to see demolition work begin as soon as 2022. The latest plan makes Oregon and California equal partners in the demolition with a nonprofit entity, called the Klamath River Renewal Corporation, and adds $45 million to the project’s $450 million budgets. Oregon, California and the utility PacifiCorp, which operates the hydroelectric dams and is owned by billionaire Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway, will each provide one-third of the additional funds — and the Klamath will once again be dam-free.

Tune in at the link in our bio!

Host: Carry Kim
Engineer: Blake Lampkin blakequakebeats
Producer: Jack Eidt @wilderutopia
Social Media: @_fledermaus
EcoJustice Radio Created by: @socal.350

#undamtheklamath #waterislife #waterback #california #indigenous #yurok #karuk #klamath #waterprotectors #indigenousknowledge #indigenouspride #indigenousyouth #environmentaljustice

It’s a Salvador Dalí holiday #surrealism #salvadordali #holiday #christmas #christmastree

Hundreds of paintings believed to be up to 20,000 years old on rock faces in the 3 million hectare Chiribiquete national park of the Amazonas region of Colombia keep getting “rediscovered” by outsiders. Photo Credit: Fundación Ecoplanet © Francisco Forero Bonell. The once populous Karijona Tribe most likely painted these masterpieces, and continue to live uncontacted in the vast rainforest, and anthropologists and explorers have studied the region for hundreds of years. #colombia #karijonatribe #rockart #chiribiquete #petroglyphs

TUNE IN as @ecojusticeradio_ presents Part 2 of our special Four-Part series on “Rise of the Amazon Defenders.”

In this episode, we investigate the story of New York based attorney Steven Donziger who represented Ecuadorian communities demanding justice from Chevron-Texaco for one of the largest-ever oil disasters, where they deliberately dumped more than 16 billion gallons of toxic wastewater, spilled 17 million gallons of crude oil, and left hazardous waste in hundreds of open pits dug out of the forest floor. In an historic judgement, #Chevron was found liable by Ecuadorian courts and ordered to pay $9.5 billion.

Chevron says it will never pay. Instead, they launched an extraordinary racketeering and extortion lawsuit against the Ecuadorian and U.S. attorneys, and various consultants, including @amazonwatch alleging they were all lying about Chevron's pollution and that the entire case was "sham litigation." Chevron has turned our guest Steven Donziger into a corporate political prisoner, placed under house arrest, bankrupt, disbarred.

We look into how Chevron, supported by US federal judges, is using retaliatory attacks against Mr. Donziger and the Ecuadorian Peoples, and how their actions set a dangerous precedent and represent a growing and serious threat to the ability of civil society to hold corporations accountable for their misdeeds around the world.

Host: Jessica Aldridge @AdventuresinWaste
Engineer: Blake Lampkin blakequakebeats
Graphics: @_fledermaus
EcoJustice Radio Created by: @socal.350
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#FreeSteven #MakeChevronCleanUp
#environmentaljustice #amazonbasin #amazonwatch #amazonrainforest #podcast #socialjustice #FreeDonziger #CleanUpEcuador #ChevronGuilty #ecuador #indigenousrights #oilspill

Let’s all take a hint from Edoardo Manet, and think peace, beauty. He became one of the most notorious painters in Paris when several of the controversial works he exhibited in the 1863 Salon des Refusés shocked the public with their bold treatment of form, color, space, and sexually oriented themes. In the summer of the following year, perhaps seeking relief from the harsh criticism he had received, Manet left Paris for Boulogne-sur-Mer, a city on the northern Atlantic coast of France, where he painted marine subjects and still lifes of fish. Think lilies, boats, fish today.

Steamboat leaving Boulogne – by
Edouard Manet, 1864 #artistsoninstagram #manet #boulogne #election2020 #peace #love #understanding